[Scummvm-devel] README missing date

[Tarek Soliman]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 01:49:05PM +0200, Hubert Maier wrote:
> Hi devs,
> 
> this is probably because of my bad memory, but i recently found that the git
> builds hold a README file which has the line
> Last updated:    $Date$
> in it.
> 
> Shouldn't that rather hold the build date?
This is a holdover from SVN.
The svn-keywords feature would automagically replace this with the last modified date on a checkout.
> Or has this (and always had) been turned off for git builds and only holds the
> date with release builds?
It should probably be removed IMHO.
I am not sure I understand the importance of knowing when the readme was last updated.
Probably not important enough to manually update it.
-- 
Tarek